General Commenti know Stefan and Brian named the band Ashtray Heart, before they suddenly changed it to Placebo...
this probably has an influence on this song.
I have no idea what it means yet though lol
need a few more listens ;)
xoxo

General CommentHas anybody else noticed a similarity between this song and the beginning of 'This Picture'? Also, it's interesting to see How Brian changes personae, from 'my heart is an ashtray' to 'I tore the muscle from YOUR chest'. Who is the victim and who is the villain of the piece?

General CommentI have not the faintest notion of Spanish, and, being mainly French speaking, I often misunderstand some lyrics... So my Mondegreen repertoire is pretty well furnished! This is how I thought the chorus went:

"Said he'd settle, he said he'd settle,
He caught us all, he said he'd settle"

I thought it went well with the whole commitment issue of "promise I could not make", though I couldn't quite figure why it'd switched to the 3rd person suddenly... ^^

General Commentthe song is awesome, it doesnt sound morbid if you go onto you tube n type in placebo ashtray heart n listen to the recording at sheffield you can here it! i think the song is about a couple....one of them was wanting it to last forever n gave their all n the other one wasnt sure so wouldnt commit. N the ashtray heart bit is a metaphore (i cant not spell!!!) saying that he just used it liek an ashtray like he couldnt give a shit......i am placebo mad the are the best band...thanks to whoever put these lyrics up as the song doent come out till june the 8th!! <3 :D

General Commentmany many thankies to mojo22.! if it wasn't your comment, i would wait till the official release of the album to listen to the song...not that it would necessarily bother me....but thanks anyway....nice lyrics, nice song and great band....PLACEBO 4LIFE!!

Actually Brian recently stated in an interview when asked about the song regarding the spanish lyrics. He said the song came to him when he asked for an ashtray whilst sitting outside at a Spanish cafe.

General CommentI have composed this song with two friends during my vacations in Nicaragua. It came to me because I was always asking for an ashtray (laughs). We began to sing the word in Spanish, which gave the title to the song. Initially it was not intended for Placebo, but I was so pleased with the result that I decided to include it."
this song is .... It was never intended to be used for Placebo, I wrote it with two friends of mine, we write songs together for fun and this one ...

But why didn't you want to use it?

because, because of this connection to Ashtray Heart etc., we had wrotten it, we would sell it to someone. And we wrote in Nicaragua, because there is Spanish in it Cenicero cenicero mi corazon, and I was the only smoker, I was on vacation in Nicaragua and I was always asking in every restaurant, in every coffee an cenicero cenicero . We had the demo for this song, we listened to it while driving across Nicaragua and it's how the song was written. And this is the first song which is on a Placebo album that I didn't write with Stefan.